Anatomy of the CNS

Question 0

What is a slice from the left to the right?

Answer 0

Coronal

Question 1

What is a slice from the anterior to the posterior?

Answer 1

Sagital

Question 2

What is a slice horizontally?

Answer 2

Horizontal

Question 3

What lobe is the primary somatosensory cortex, sensory association areas and wernickes area in?

Answer 3

Parietal lobe

Question 4

What two parts of the cerebral cortex represent the body in the homunculus man?

Answer 4

The somatosensory cortex and the motor cortex

Question 5

What lobe does the primary auditory cortex, auditory association area, limbic association cortex and the olfactory cortex belong to?

Answer 5

Temporal lobe

Question 6

What does the occipital lobe control?

Answer 6

Sense of sight

Question 7

What does the temporal lobe control?

Answer 7

Senses of smell and sound, as well as complex stimuli processing (eg. faces and senses)

Question 8

What are the 4 lobes of the brain?

Answer 8

Frontal, parietal, occipital and temporal

Question 9

What is the front of the brain anatomically termed?

Answer 9

Anterior

Question 10

What three parts does the hindbrain include?

Answer 10

Pons, medulla oblongata and the cerebellum

Question 11

Where is the 4th ventricle situated in the brain?

Answer 11

Behind the pons and medulla oblongata

Question 12

What does the locus courcleus in pons contain?

Answer 12

Noradrenaline positive cells

Question 13

Give the two areas of the rhombencephalon?

Answer 13

Metencephalon and myelencephalon

Question 14

What is the prosencephalon?

Answer 14

Forebrain

Question 15

What is the hindbrain called?

Answer 15

Rhombencephalon

Question 16

What is the mesencephalon?

Answer 16

Midbrain

Question 17

Where are myelinating glial cells made in a) the CNS and b) the PNS?

Answer 17

Oligodendrocytes and Schwann cells

Question 18

What are in the pons/medulla contains the chemoreceptors trigger zone?

Answer 18

Postrema

Question 19

In the midsagital part of the brain what connects the two hemispheres?

Answer 19

The corpus callosum

Question 20

What in the diancephalon is involved in the endocrine function and homeostasis?

Answer 20

The hypothalamus

Question 21

What is the frontal lobe in control of and want can damage to it lead to?

Answer 21

Conscious though and mood changes

Question 22

What does the involuntary or autonomic NS control?

Answer 22

Heart rate, blood pressure, respiration, gut movements etc

Question 23

What in the midbrain is the motor system which has dopamine contains cells?

Answer 23

Substantia nigra

Question 24

What is the reticular formation of the medulla and hindbrain in control of?

Answer 24

Allergens and cardiovascular functions

Question 25

What is the motor control structure?

Answer 25

Red nucleus

Question 26

Hat is the limbic system involved in in the diancephalon?

Answer 26

Mood and emotion

Question 27

What is the important relay nucleus in the diancephalon?

Answer 27

Dorsal thalamus

Question 28

What are the cerebral and neo-cortex involved in in the telencephalon?

Answer 28

Higher functions

Question 29

What is the penequeductal grey matter in the midbrain important for?

Answer 29

Emotive pain pathways and fear

Question 30

High lobe is involved in processing visual spatial, integrating various sense and manipulation of objects?

Answer 30

Parietal lobe

Question 31

Give three differences between a rat and a human brain?

Answer 31

Different in size, rats brains have little folding, the anatomical terminology is different

Question 32

What is the space between the dura and the arachnoid mater called?

Answer 32

The subdural space

Question 33

How is the top and bottom of the brain anatomically termed?

Answer 33

Superior and inferior

Question 34

What are the gyri and sulci in the cerebral hemispheres?

Answer 34

Ridges and valleys

Question 35

Name the three membranes from the inside out?

Answer 35

Pia, arachnoid and dura matter

Question 36

What does the pituitary gland do in the diancephalon?

Answer 36

Control the release of hormone

Question 37

Which membrane of the meninges enters the sulci?

Answer 37

The pia mater

Question 38

Now many membranes are in the meninges?

Answer 38

3

Question 39

Is the lower of upper toros medially represented?

Answer 39

Lower torso

Question 40

What does the superios colliculus do in the midbrain?

Answer 40

Receives visual spatial inputs and brings the eyes to focus

Question 41

What in the hindbrain contains 5-HT cells?

Answer 41

Raphe nuclei

Question 42

What are the two sections of the occipital lobe?

Answer 42

Visual association area and primary visual cortex

Question 43

What is part of the extra pyramidal motor cortex system (corpus striatum) in the telencephalon?

Answer 43

The basal ganglia

Question 44

Hat four sections does the frontal lobe split into?

Answer 44

Prefrontal association area, Broca's area, premotor cortex and primary motor cortex

Question 45

What is the claudate nucleus in the telencephalon involved in?

Answer 45

Motor disorders

Question 46

Give the two areas of the prosencephalon?

Answer 46

Telencephalon and diancephalon

Question 47

Where is the third ventricle situated?

Answer 47

Between the two cerebral hemispheres